| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
xii, 401 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Family by Marilyn Robinson -- The perfectionist by Margaret Talbot -- The eclipse of the reformist left by Richard Rorty -- Sisyphus in the basement by George Packer -- Digging by Andre Dubus -- Portrait of the bagel as a young man by Thomas Beller -- The Talmud and the internet by Jonathan Rosen -- Annunciation by Kathleen Norris -- A plea for Eros by Siri Hustvedt -- Masochism by Wayne Koestenbaum -- My pirate boyhood by Vijay Seshadri -- Ali, the wonder boy by Gerald Early -- Some thoughts on the common toad by George Orwell -- The Antilles by Derek Walcott -- Mantid by Gordon Grice -- Collecting nature by Anne Fadiman -- My father's daughter by Bliss Broyard -- Meditations on the Harp by M. G. Stephens -- The word on the street by Marcus Laffey -- Science and the corrosion of the soul by Miroslav Holub -- I can see by Edward Hoagland -- Bad eyes by Erin McGraw -- Black by Alexander Theroux -- My last therapist by Emily Fox Gordon -- Pelleas et Melisande by Susan Sontag -- Victims and agents by Martha Nussbaum -- At fifty by Jenny Diski -- Kismet by Floyd Skloot. |
| Subject |
English essays -- 20th century.
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American essays -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Lopate, Phillip, 1943-
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| ISBN |
0385484151 paperback |
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9780385484152 paperback |
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